What's New in Logos 6

Phil Gons (Logos)
Phil Gons (Logos) Member, Logos Employee Posts: 3,796
edited November 20 in English Forum

Logos 6 is the biggest new release we've ever offered. Here are the new features and functionality we've added. Click the link to jump to a thread about the feature, where you can learn more, ask questions, and jump to additional information.

New Features

  1. Ancient Literature guide section
  2. Atlas
  3. Atlas search and guide section
  4. Ask the Author
  5. Autocomplete
  6. Biblical Entity Tooltips
  7. Books.logos.com search section
  8. Case Frames section
  9. Clause Participants section
  10. Community Tags
  11. Community Tags search
  12. Community Tags section
  13. Cultural Concepts section
  14. Everything Search
  15. Factbook
  16. Factbook Search
  17. Factbook: Bible Books
  18. Factbook: Notable People
  19. Filtered resource view
  20. Groups Tool
  21. Hide Chapter and Verse
  22. Inline Search
  23. Interactive Resources
  24. Journals guide section
  25. Labels
  26. Label Searching
  27. Logos Media Collections
  28. Media Search
  29. Media Section
  30. Milestone Searching
  31. Outline Formatting visual filter
  32. Passage List Searching
  33. Personal Book Sync
  34. Propositional Outlines visual filter
  35. Quick Collections
  36. Save as Passage List
  37. Section Searching
  38. Send to Kindle (retired on 3/31/16)
  39. Senses guide section
  40. Speaker Searching
  41. Textual Variants guide section
  42. Visual Copy
  43. Wikipedia
  44. 64-bit application

Updated Features

  1. Bible Text Only visual filter
  2. Clause Search
  3. Context Menu
  4. Collections guide section
  5. Data Type Searching
  6. Home Page
  7. Notes
  8. Personal Book Sync
  9. Popular Highlights
  10. Pronunciation
  11. Reading Plans
  12. Senses section
  13. Timeline
  14. Tools Menu
  15. User Interface
  16. WITHIN Search Operator

See also https://www.logos.com/features.

New Resources

Interactive Resources

  1. Ancient Inscriptions
  2. Before and After: Biblical Sites
  3. Bible Outline Browser
  4. Bible People Visual Timelines
  5. Biblical Event Navigator
  6. Canon Comparison
  7. Counting the Ten Commandments
  8. Days of Creation
  9. Greek Alphabet Tutor
  10. Hebrew Alphabet Tutor
  11. Hebrew Cantilations
  12. Interactive Infographics from the Faithlife Study Bible
  13. Interlinear Explorer
  14. Israelite Feasts and Sacrifices
  15. Morphology Charts
  16. Narrative Character Maps
  17. Numeric Converter
  18. Parallel Gospel Reader
  19. Proverbs Explorer
  20. Psalms Explorer
  21. Reverse Interlinear Explorer
  22. Text Converter
  23. Weights and Measures Converter
  24. Who Killed Goliath?

Glossaries

  1. The Lexham Cultural Ontology Glossary
  2. The Lexham Glossary of Literary Types
  3. The Lexham Glossary of Semantic Roles
  4. The Lexham Glossary of Theology
  5. The Lexham Propositional Outlines Glossary

    Facsimile Resources

    Other Resources

    1. Atlas
    2. DIY Bible Study
    3. LES English-Greek Reverse Interlinear of the Septuagint
    4. Lexham Textual Notes
    5. Lexham Theological Wordbook
    6. Moment with God: A Devotional on Every Biblical Book
    7. Study Like a Pro: Explore Difficult Passages from Every Book of the Bible

    Updated Resources

    1. Lexham Bible Dictionary
    2. Biblical People Diagrams (English)
    3. Biblical People Diagrams (Spanish)
    4. Biblical Places Maps

    New Media Collections

    1. Artifacts from the British Museum
    2. Beitzel Photo Library
    3. deSilva Teaching Materials, vol. 1
    4. Faithlife Study Bible Media
    5. Lexham Bible Background Slides
    6. Logos Media Archive
    7. Logos Stock Media
    8. Online Media
    9. Preaching Themes Slide Art
    10. Proclaim Media

    New Datasets

    1. Ancient Literature Dataset
    2. Bible Books Dataset
    3. Community Tags Dataset
    4. Bible Audio Pronunciations Dataset (English)
    5. Greek Audio Pronunciations Dataset (Koine)
    6. Named Texts
    7. Lexham Clauses Dataset: Septuagint Deuterocanon/Apocrypha, H.B. Swete Edition
    8. Lexham Cultural Ontology Dataset
    9. Lexham Cultural Ontology Supplemental Dataset
    10. Lexicon Reformatting Dataset
    11. Literary Type Dataset
    12. Notable People Dataset
    13. Online Manuscripts Dataset
    14. Propositional Bible Outlines Dataset
    15. Semantic Roles and Case Frames Dataset: LHB Edition
    16. Semantic Roles and Case Frames Dataset: SBLGNT Edition

    Updated Datasets

    1. Biblical Events
    2. Biblical Places
    3. Biblical People
    4. Biblical Referents (now includes unique LXX coverage)
    5. Biblical Things
    6. Biblical Word Senses
    7. Clauses: Greek
    8. Clauses: Hebrew
    9. Lemma Lists
    10. Logos Controlled Vocabulary
    11. Preaching Themes
    12. Universal Timeline

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    When you upgrade to Logos 6, you're not just getting the features, datasets, media, etc. listed above, you're also getting a brand new research library with hundreds or thousands of books. Here are the new base packages that you can upgrade to.

    Base Packages

    We're introducing 46 new base packages in 9 new families:

    Logos 6 Standard

    1. Starter
    2. Bronze
    3. Silver
    4. Gold
    5. Platinum
    6. Diamond
    7. Portfolio
    8. Collector's Edition

    Logos 6 Anglican

    1. Starter
    2. Bronze
    3. Silver
    4. Gold
    5. Platinum
    6. Diamond

    Logos 6 Baptist

    1. Starter
    2. Bronze
    3. Silver
    4. Gold
    5. Platinum
    6. Diamond

    Logos 6 Lutheran

    1. Starter
    2. Bronze
    3. Silver
    4. Gold
    5. Platinum

    Logos 6 Pentecostal/Charismatic

    1. Starter
    2. Bronze
    3. Silver

    Logos 6 Reformed

    1. Starter
    2. Bronze
    3. Silver
    4. Gold
    5. Platinum
    6. Diamond
    7. Portfolio

    Logos 6 SDA

    1. Starter
    2. Bronze
    3. Silver

    Logos 6 Special Interest

    1. Biblical Languages
    2. Chaplain's

    Verbum 6

    1. Basic
    2. Foundation
    3. Scripture Study
    4. Scholar
    5. Master
    6. Capstone

    Crossgrades

    We're also introducing two crossgrade tracks, which focus on new features and functionality and not on library growth.

    Logos 6 Crossgrade

    1. Logos 6 Core Crossgrade
    2. Logos 6 Feature Crossgrade
    3. Logos 6 Extended Crossgrade

    Verbum 6 Crossgrade

    1. Verbum 6 Core Crossgrade
    2. Verbum 6 Feature Crossgrade

    Browse all base packages and crossgrades at https://www.logos.com/basepackages and compare them side by side at https://www.logos.com/compare. Not sure what to get? Check out our recommendation at https://www.logos.com/get-6.

    Note: This thread is intentionally locked. If you have a question, please post it on the feature thread or start a new one. Thanks!

    Comments

    • Daniel Bender
      Daniel Bender Member Posts: 383

      Thanks Phil this is very helpful. I do have a question I hope you don't mind answering, when looking at my upgrade options Logos says I have over 8100 resources yet my library says I have just over 8000. However, after yesterday's update my library now says I have 7,010 resources. Are resources being counted differently now?

      Thanks

      D Bender

    • Daniel Yoder
      Daniel Yoder Member Posts: 540

      How many of the New Features are included in the L6 Starter package?  Specifically, is Send to Kindle included? 

    • abondservant
      abondservant Member Posts: 4,795
    • TCBlack
      TCBlack Member Posts: 10,978

      Logos says I have over 8100 resources yet my library says I have just over 8000.

      This is because logos.com is counting datasets and such which the Library does not count as a resource. (EDIT: I mean as a resource you can open from your library.)

      However, after yesterday's update my library now says I have 7,010 resources. Are resources being counted differently now?

      Phil or someone at Logos should be able to answer this specifically, but I would suspect it is from resources merging. 

      Hmm Sarcasm is my love language. Obviously I love you. 

    • abondservant
      abondservant Member Posts: 4,795

      As I recall it has to do with the way the count datasets now, it inflates the resource count on the website vs the software, because the software counts only books.

      L2 lvl4 (...) WORDsearch, all the way through L10,

    • David Strawn
      David Strawn Member Posts: 36

      I've just downloaded my L6 Platinum and it is indexing as I write. (not holding breath, LOL) I opened Logos on my pad and it does not appear to have any changes. Not that I'm complaining, I enjoy how Logos works on my pad, but I just wondered if there is or will be any change to the software on my pad and phone.

    • abondservant
      abondservant Member Posts: 4,795

      As a member of the ios beta (while I probably can't say what is changing), I can say they are always working to make it a better product.

      L2 lvl4 (...) WORDsearch, all the way through L10,

    • Sean Boisen
      Sean Boisen Member, Logos Employee Posts: 1,452

      I've just downloaded my L6 Platinum and it is indexing as I write. (not holding breath, LOL) I opened Logos on my pad and it does not appear to have any changes. Not that I'm complaining, I enjoy how Logos works on my pad, but I just wondered if there is or will be any change to the software on my pad and phone.

      Any new resources that came with your purchase should be available in your library. But the iOS application itself hasn't changed.

    • Drew Hannay
      Drew Hannay Member Posts: 143

      Any new resources that came with your purchase should be available in your library. But the iOS application itself hasn't changed.

      With the important caveat that the resource must be both mobile enabled (a publisher option) and supported by the mobile apps (the new interactive resources, for example, are a new type of resource that the mobile apps don't yet support reading)

    • Robert Dean, Jr
      Robert Dean, Jr Member Posts: 149

      One of the new features I would like to have changed or modified is that ctrl or command-L no longer opens the Library in a floating panel. I'm sure the Logos programmers have figured that this is somehow better, but for those of us who always open the Library as a floating window, we need a keystroke option to do that. The library window has so much info and needs to be opened in full window to see everything, that I have never liked opening it in a narrow panel. Please add another keystroke so we can just open it as a floater to begin with and not go through extra steps.

    • Graham Criddle
      Graham Criddle Member, MVP Posts: 32,418 ✭✭✭

      ctrl or command-L no longer opens the Library in a floating panel

      This has been seen and reported as a bug - https://community.logos.com/forums/t/92992.aspx - and the developers are looking into it.

      It is not consistently reproducible - some people see this behaviour and others don't.

    • PL
      PL Member Posts: 2,134 ✭✭✭

      To Sean, Bob, Phil, Bradley, et al -

      Congratulations on Logos 6!  The launch experience, though not without glitches, was 100 times better than Logos 4 and Logos 5.

      SUGGESTION: The Psalms Explorer overview is super intuitive and useful.  I encourage you to extend that type of interface to:

      1. The Proverbs Explorer

      2. The entire Bible (explore by genre, authors, timeframe, language, theme, member of which canon, and any number of other attributes and tags)

      Thanks

      Peter

    • PL
      PL Member Posts: 2,134 ✭✭✭
    • KPK
      KPK Member Posts: 194

      Yes, these two (Proverbs and Psalms  explorer) are my favorites right now! Can't seem to get out of it. :D 

      However, the lagging is very bad. My laptop isn't all that old, either.  Just a heads up! 

    • Bob Pritchett
      Bob Pritchett Member, Logos Employee Posts: 2,280

      What are you enjoying most -- the sorting of the Psalms and Proverbs by facet, or the structured analysis of the Psalms?

      What specific behavior should we offer for other books/genres? (In addition to letting you sort/organize the whole Bible by genre and other facets.)

    • PL
      PL Member Posts: 2,134 ✭✭✭

      I like both - I'm just now starting to make sense of the Psalms Parallelism display (just discovered you can hover over the labels and it give a tool tip to explain the legend - very nice!)

      But I definitely enjoy the faceting view even more, and would love to see the Proverbs as well as the whole Bible each have their own faceted explorers similar to the Psalm Explorer.

      Once we drill into a specific book of the Bible, can we have an expandable / collapsible / exportable / printable outline view of chapters or sections of that book?

      Thanks,

      Peter

    • Steve Maling
      Steve Maling Member Posts: 737

      Bob,

      I'm enjoying the structured analysis of the Psalms most.

      My Hebrew is good enough that I don't need morph tagging, but I was surprised it isn't included. And I was really surprised that the Information window isn't activated by the Psalms Explorer.

      That said, I'm more than grateful for what you all in Bellingham have provided. (Please note that I said I was "surprised", not "disappointed".)

    • Mike Tourangeau
      Mike Tourangeau Member Posts: 1,546

      When you run a search for {Section <Culture = Counsel>},

      Mmmm, Ok when I run this search I get 2,949 results in 2,788 articles in 284 resources (In 49 secs). I can see how this search could be helpful providing it had some sort of autocomplete built in, otherwise you would be guessing what concepts had been tagged....

      The purpose, therefore, is to return all the sections in your library that refer to that particular cultural concept.

      It is encouraging to me that this has been done for "counsel" makes me think they are going to do more!

    • Rosie Perera
      Rosie Perera Member Posts: 26,202

      EVERYONE: Please stop posting on this thread. It was supposed to be locked as a sticky at the top of the Logos 6 forum, not to be a free-for-all with people posting questions about Logos 6. A bug in the forum software caused it to get unlocked when Phil edited the original post, and that bug also prevents moderators from locking it again. Joel has yet to see our reports about that bug and to fix it. But in the meantime, please restrain yourselves. Thanks!

      NO MORE POSTS PLEASE!

    • Mike Childs
      Mike Childs Member Posts: 3,116

      EVERYONE: Please stop posting on this thread. It was supposed to be locked as a sticky at the top of the Logos 6 forum, not to be a free-for-all with people posting questions about Logos 6. A bug in the forum software caused it to get unlocked when Phil edited the original post, and that bug also prevents moderators from locking it again. Joel has yet to see our reports about that bug and to fix it. But in the meantime, please restrain yourselves. Thanks!

      NO MORE POSTS PLEASE!

      Does that include Bob?


      "In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church," John Wesley

    • Dan Francis
      Dan Francis Member Posts: 5,335

      EVERYONE: Please stop posting on this thread. It was supposed to be locked as a sticky at the top of the Logos 6 forum, not to be a free-for-all with people posting questions about Logos 6. A bug in the forum software caused it to get unlocked when Phil edited the original post, and that bug also prevents moderators from locking it again. Joel has yet to see our reports about that bug and to fix it. But in the meantime, please restrain yourselves. Thanks!

      NO MORE POSTS PLEASE!

      Does that include Bob?

      Faithlife Employees in general would be exempt I would think. Being more than a little rebellious at times the first thing I wanted to do when seeing Rosie's post was respond ok. Even this as I am typing it I am having second thoughts but I am still pushing forward and in the words of Luther, "Sin boldly"

      -Dan

    • JT (alabama24)
      JT (alabama24) Member, MVP Posts: 36,469 ✭✭✭
    • abondservant
      abondservant Member Posts: 4,795

      EVERYONE: Please stop posting on this thread. It was supposed to be locked as a sticky at the top of the Logos 6 forum, not to be a free-for-all with people posting questions about Logos 6. A bug in the forum software caused it to get unlocked when Phil edited the original post, and that bug also prevents moderators from locking it again. Joel has yet to see our reports about that bug and to fix it. But in the meantime, please restrain yourselves. Thanks!

      NO MORE POSTS PLEASE!

      Does that include Bob?

      doubtful :)

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